Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School,
Obesity Medicine Physician/Instructor of Medicine
Dr. Stanford is an Instructor in Medicine and Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/ Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Stanford received her BS and MPH from Emory University, her MD from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, and her MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she was a Zuckerman Fellow in the Harvard Center for Public Leadership. She has served as a health communications fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a behavioral sciences intern at the American Cancer Society. Upon completion of her MPH, she received the Gold Congressional Award, the highest honor that Congress bestows upon America’s youth. Dr. Stanford has completed a medicine and media internship at the Discovery Channel. An American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Leadership Award recipient in 2005, an AMA Paul Ambrose Award for national leadership among resident physicians in 2009, she was selected for the AMA Inspirational Physician Award in 2015. Dr. Stanford completed her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine/Palmetto Health. The American College of Physicians (ACP) selected her as the 2013 recipient of the Joseph E. Johnson Leadership Award and the Massachusetts ACP selected her for the Young Leadership Award in 2015. She completed her Obesity Medicine & Nutrition Fellowship at MGH/HMS. She is a Fellow of The Obesity Society, and she is a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.